The UK passport deal was transparent. Elsewhere, it's a different story | Colin Crame

Instead of querying the procurement of passports, we should question the millions being spent on Whitehall consultants

Transparency and integrity should be at the heart of all public procurement, to demonstrate fairness and minimise the risk of corruption. The recent row over who will print the UK’s post-Brexit passports shows how misunderstood procurement rules are.

But there’s another, less well-publicised story about the use of consultants as Whitehall attempts to cope with its huge Brexit workload.

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from The Guardian https://ift.tt/2pK2Qg7